Awards

• Junior Library Guild Selection

Overview

A blizzard. An oath. A war outside and within. By the winter of 1916, World War I has ravaged the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Eighteen-year-old Renata Zamoyska, Polish countess and doctor-in-training, has lost everything to the Russian occupation: her family, her home, her fiancé. But with the Russians in retreat and the Germans now in charge, life isn't much easier. Wounded soldiers keep arriving from the front, Renia’s house remains in ruins, and the scars of the occupation linger. When two Polish deserters from the Russian army turn up on her doorstep just before a fierce blizzard, Renia finds herself trapped in her own home alongside people she's long considered enemies. Cut off from the outside world while the storm rages, Renia must fight to survive, grapple with her wartime scars, and decide what justice, freedom, and healing look like for her.

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Reviews

""McCrina's writing is muscular, precise and visual. A must read.""—Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, author of the Kidnapped from Ukraine series

Author Information

Amanda McCrina is the author of the YA historical novels Traitor, I'll Tell You No Lies, Beyond Seven Forests, and The Silent Unseen which was selected as a Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Book of the Year. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, she holds a BA in history and political science from the University of West Georgia. After three years of teaching English, history, and government at an international school outside Madrid, Spain, she now lives outside Nashville, Tennessee, where she works as a bookseller.

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